I've never had to pay for a firearm till the BG check comes back. That includes the ONE firearm I bought a Cabela's.
Yeppers, I don't buy guns (or much of anything else) at Cabela's/Bass Pro anymore either. But that's because the last time I was looking at a gun at Cabela's/Bass Pro they wouldn't let me test the trigger. So I went right across the street to Sportsman's Warehouse (where the
did let me test the trigger) and bought it there. Regardless, I've never paid for any gun anywhere before the BG check was completed.
I guess in my case it's a moot point though. In Idaho, if you have a CCW License (which my wife and I both have) it takes the place of a phone-in BG check. You just fill out the paperwork, hand the salesperson your CCW License, they write down the information (and sometimes make a copy of your CCW License and attach it to the paperwork) and then they hand your license back to you. After THAT you pay for your gun in any store I've ever bought a gun from.
I don't agree with the practice but I understand the logic.
Yeah, I understand the logic. Just like Cabela's/Bass Pro can try to understand my logic of not paying for a gun (or for that matter, any other product) until I'm ready to leave the store with it.
As a matter of fact, just like I stated above, I walked out of Cabela's/Bass Pro last winter and went across the street to Sportsman's to buy a gun because Cabela's wouldn't let me test the trigger. Well, I guess Cabela's/Bass Pro "understood my logic," because when my wife and I were in there a couple of weeks ago, they had bullet traps, and they were allowing potential gun customers to test triggers.